chromatic scale

All this fine chromatic scale passes within such modest boundaries that it is accused as a monotony.

It resembles closely an Erda theme of the Ring—as is quite natural, for one chromatic scale cannot but resemble another.

He was therefore forced to go down the chromatic scale of creation and find another class of clients.

"Tristan und Isolde" and "Parsifal" are constructed upon a chromatic scale.

The music of Japan, though built on the chromatic scale, was much the same as that of China.